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Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2010’

Case Study: Given Imaging Redesigns Website on SharePoint 2010

Perficient recently worked with Given Imaging to redesign its corporate website, GivenImaging.com, on SharePoint 2010. Given Imaging had first partnered with Perficient to improve its CapsuleEndoscopy.org website, which is dedicated to advancing PillCam® capsule endoscopy and built on the SharePoint platform. Here is an excerpt from the case study describing the challenge: Built on the […]

NewsGator Activity Feed Dissected

Don’t worry, no blood was spilled and no activity feed was harmed in the making of this blog post. The diagrams below apply to NewsGator activity feeds from Versions 2.6 and 3.1. The classes labeled in orange were added in v3.1. The Share box was re-done in 3.1, so the 1st one is v2.6 and […]

Variation Labels (_Layouts/VariationLabels.aspx) is broken

I have been assigned on a project to investigate some issues with SharePoint Variations and the first issue I encountered was the error shows up when I click on Variation Labels link under Site Settings. The error pops up with a message “Object reference is not set to an instance of an object” and correlation ID. As […]

Service Manager 2012 – Self Service Portal Step by Step Part 1

This is part 1 of 2,  a step by step document on how to install the Service Manager 2012 Self Service Portal on SharePoint 2010.  These best practices are a result of many production installs in the field and the lessons learnt (so you don’t have to!) Best practice is to have a separate VM just […]

Advanced SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Development

  Author: Suzanne George, Senior Technical Architect, Perficient. This week I presented at the Houston SharePoint Users Group on Advanced InfoPath Development and although the dance-off between Richard Calderon and I was, well, memorable — and not necessarily in a good way LOL(!),  I hope everyone had a great time and great food thanks to […]

Microsoft BI on an iPad?!

PerformancePoint, Reporting, and Excel Services on an iPad… it can’t be.  It is a fact.  What? You don’t believe me check out this link and see for yourself.  This feature was included in the December 2011 SharePoint 2010 CU.  However, I have some bad news if you have recently updated to iOS 6. The tap and hold […]

Gartner Magic Quadrant: Horizontal Portals 2012

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

App model in SharePoint 2013 puts power in the developer’s hands

About two months ago, I was pointed to an article that talked about SharePoint Apps and how some people are starting to call them “Crapps”: SharePoint 2013 Preview – Apps or Crapps?  I didn’t want to add my two cents right away because I hadn’t really had a chance to play with the App Model […]

White Paper: 8 Best Practices to Drive SharePoint User Adoption

It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges organizations face with SharePoint is its adoption. This is due in part to SharePoint’s flexibility – its greatest strength and its greatest challenge. The platform is leveraged for various purposes, including intranets, extranets, public websites, social collaboration, and business intelligence. Often, the capabilities of SharePoint exceed […]

How to Make Parent-Child Lists and Forms in SharePoint 2010

In this article we will explore how to make parent-child list relationships in SharePoint 2010, at both the list level and the user interface form level. At the list level, we will describe how to use a Lookup field to create the relationship at the list level. At the user interface level, we will document […]

Custom Principles of SharePoint Development & User Experience

Microsoft’s latest release of SharePoint (SharePoint 2010) has been gaining more and more traction lately in the collaboration/portal space as well as the public website/ digital marketing space. As such, organizations are trying to maximize their investment by enhancing their SharePoint solution with custom functionality and improved user experience. Let’s be frank, the out-of-the-box SharePoint […]

A Few Things About SharePoint Workspace and Groove

The SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove Server 2010 technologies from Microsoft are designed to address this common business scenario: An organization has documents, lists, and other assets stored in SharePoint 2010, but the organization also has a good number of users who are often working in a situation where they are not maintaining an active […]

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